Throughout this manual, the term "click" refers to the act of pressing and releasing the leftmost mouse button (technically the button that is identified as button number 1 - your operating system may allow this be reassigned). This action is used to select objects, activate buttons, turn on/off choices, popup menus and so forth.
+Throughout this manual, the term "click" refers to the act of pressing and releasing the leftmost mouse button (technically identified as Button1, but your operating system may allow this to be reassigned). This action is used to select objects, activate buttons, turn on/off choices, popup menus and so forth.
On touch surfaces, it also corresponds to a regular, single-finger tap on the GUI.
Throughout this manual, the term "right-click" refers to the act of pressing and releasing the rightmost mouse button (technically the button that is identified as button number 3 - your operating system may allow this be reassigned). This action is used to pop up "context menus" (hence the term "context click", which you will also see). It is also used by default in combination with the shift key for deleting objects within the editor window.
+Throughout this manual, the term "right-click" refers to the act of pressing and releasing the rightmost mouse button (technically identified as Button2, but your operating system may allow this to be reassigned). This action is used to pop up "context menus" (hence the term "context click", which you will also see). It is also used by default in combination with the shift key for deleting objects within the editor window. Mac OS mice sometimes have only one button. On Mac OS if you press and hold the Control key this is equivalent to right-clicking.
+Throughout this manual, the term "middle-click" refers to the act of pressing and releasing the middle mouse button (technically identified as Button3, but your operating system may allow this to be reassigned). Not all all mice have a middle click button (see the mouse for details). Sometimes the scroll wheel acts as a clickable middle button. This action is used for time-constrained region copying and mapping MIDI bindings
A "double click" refers to two rapid press/release actions on the leftmost mouse button. The time interval between the two press/release actions that determines whether this is seen as two clicks or one double click is controlled by your system preferences, not by Ardour.
Throughut this manual, the term "drag" primarily refers to the act of pressing the leftmost mouse button, then moving the mouse with the button held down, and then releasing the button. On touch surfaces, this term also corresponds to a normal single finger touch-motion-release action.
Ardour also uses the middle mouse button for certain kinds of drags, which will be referred to as "middle-drag" - these are identical to a normal drag except that they involve using the middle button rather than the left button.
There are many actions in Ardour that can be carried out using a mouse button in combination with a "modifier key". When the manual refers to Ctrl-click, it means that you should first press the Control key, then carry out a normal click while the Control key is held down, and then finally release the Control key. Available modifiers depend on the platform you are using Ardour on:
+There are many actions in Ardour that can be carried out using a mouse button in combination with a "modifier key". When the manual refers to Ctrl-click, it means that you should first press the Control key, then carry out a normal click while the Control key is held down, and then finally release the Control key. On Mac OS use Cmd-click instead. Available modifiers depend on the platform you are using Ardour on: